The Best Butterbeer Recipe

Today is the Boy Who Lived’s birthday! Technically Harry Potter is 38 today…! But in my mind, he’ll always be the 11-year-old wizard who first introduced me to the wizarding world.

So let’s raise a glass and celebrate Harry with a delicious glass of butterbeer.

Now, there are a lot of recipes for Butterbeer out there, but with some advice from my co-worker, I found and adapted the perfect recipe from Bakingdom to replicate Universal Studio’s butterbeer taste.

Delicious and Easy Butterbeer Recipe

What You Need:

1 12-oz can of cream soda (for each individual)

1/2 tsp. of imitation butter

2 cups heavy whipping cream

5 tbsp. of sugar (note: I decreased the amount of sugar from the original recipe)

2 tsp. vanilla extract

First, prepare the foam topping. Now I’m going to warn you, the key to making a great foam or whipped topping is patience. If you have a stand mixer, use it! If not, a hand mixer will work, but your arm might fall off by the end of the mixing. 🙂

With your stand mixer, mix the heavy whipping cream for 5-6 minutes until thickened. Next, add sugar and mix for another 4-5 minutes. Finally, mix in vanilla and whip until you’ve got the perfect whipped topping. Set aside while you prepare the butterbeer mixture.

For the butterbeer, start by adding 1/2 tsp. of imitation butter to your glass. Then pour in 1 can of chilled cream soda. Stir to mix.

Top with as much foam as you’d like — and enjoy! (Just watch out for pesky pixies — I hear they love butterbeer.)

I worked at a harry Potter summer camp for a few years, and we would serve butterbeer that was basically just cream soda and butter mixed together. The idea of butter in my soda sounded pretty gross so I never tried it, but the kids loved it! And I do love the one at Universal.

All right, Monica, is this REALLY the best recipe? I’m not much of a cook/baker/mixologist (no patience) so I don’t want to try a bunch of recipes. But if you swear this is the best, I’ll give it a try.

It’s my FAVORITE! I think it tastes a lot like the butterbeer at Universal! I don’t like a ton of extra sweetness, so this one does it for me. It’s largely cream soda with just a touch of imitation butter and some cream topping. Mmmhhmm now I want a glass!